Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Farouk Shamihttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/farouk-shami/Stories or blog posts about Farouk Shami from Politifact.comen-usFri, 16 Jan 2015 17:45:53 -0500Five years of truths and not-so-truthshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/jan/16/five-years-truths-and-not-so-truths/Know what Marc Katz, Farouk Shami, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Rick Perry have in common? It&rsquo;s not philosophy, and, no, it isn&rsquo;t eventual obscurity, you troublemaker you. Five years ago, each then-candidate made a curious factual claim. On Jan. 12, 2010, our fact checks of those claims &mdash; the Truth-O-Meter ratings ranged from Mostly True (not bad) to Pants on Fire (oof) &mdash; launched the Austin American-Statesman&rsquo;s PolitiFact Texas, the first state-level fact-checking arm of the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact.com. Nowadays, PolitiFact also has spinoffs in Florida, Georgia, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin. Here in Texas, ... <a href="/texas/article/2015/jan/16/five-years-truths-and-not-so-truths/">>>More</a>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:45:53 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2015/jan/16/five-years-truths-and-not-so-truths/Rick Perry pitch touches on fact-checked claimshttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/jun/10/rick-perrys-texas-pitch-touches-fact-checked-claim/Texas Gov. Rick Perry popped fresh advertising spots this week pitching for businesses to move to Texas. We watched them--see one posted to the right and the other one here--and noticed claims similar to statements already subjected to the Truth-O-Meter. In &quot;Texas Is Calling,&quot; a woman says: &quot;And 1,400 people move here every day.&quot; In 2010, we rated as Mostly True a statement by Perry that 1,000 people moved here every day. In the ad, a physician says: &quot;Texas has the largest medical center in the world.&quot; We took that as a reference to the Texas Medical Center in Houston ... <a href="/texas/article/2013/jun/10/rick-perrys-texas-pitch-touches-fact-checked-claim/">>>More</a>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:54:02 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2013/jun/10/rick-perrys-texas-pitch-touches-fact-checked-claim/My opponent is... RICH!http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2010/oct/22/rick-perry-millionaire-sos-bill-white/As in past campaign seasons, how Texas candidates make money has led to several attack lines. No ads have seemed as provocative to us as the spot Gov. Rick Perry ran in 2002 casting the wealthy Democratic nominee, Laredo businessman and banker Tony Sanchez, as laundering drug money, though if we&#39;re overlooking a doozy, nudge us at politifact@statesman.com. But the Texas Truth-O-Meter has kicked in for several wealth-related claims. In February, we checked Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Farouk Shami&#39;s charge that Democratic candidate Bill White, who accrued wealth via investments and the energy business, had a &quot;major stake&quot; in the Barnett ... <a href="/texas/article/2010/oct/22/rick-perry-millionaire-sos-bill-white/">>>More</a>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:10:04 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2010/oct/22/rick-perry-millionaire-sos-bill-white/Candidates use and abuse numbers to make a pointhttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2010/oct/13/candidates-use-and-abuse-numbers-make-point/Many PolitiFact Texas reviews turn on checking someone&#39;s ballyhooed numbers. Our challenge? Trying to gauge what the numbers truly mean &mdash; and how meaningful they are. We&#39;ve explored several hot numbers in the 2010 Texas elections, including $18 billion (one estimate of the revenue shortfall Texas will face next year) and 850,000 (the number of jobs created in Texas as talked up by GOP Gov. Rick Perry). And now we&#39;ve run a new number through the Truth-O-Meter &mdash; $1.7 billion. That&#39;s what Perry calls the City of Houston&#39;s total &quot;operating losses&quot; while Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White served as Houston&#39;s ... <a href="/texas/article/2010/oct/13/candidates-use-and-abuse-numbers-make-point/">>>More</a>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:16:19 -0400http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2010/oct/13/candidates-use-and-abuse-numbers-make-point/